RaveSpectrum CultureThese dozens of characters, distinctly individual yet overwhelmingly interconnected in daily life and history, stutter step at the story’s center to elucidate its ancient wisdom of understanding and redemption ... a hopeful novel, and such optimism is all the more remarkable for its being set in the year following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination ... What remains with readers upon the book’s conclusion is a sense of history as alive in people, woven together, at its best, in the clarity and wonderment of love.